David Scott Douthit
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- Joined
- Aug 23, 2014
- Messages
- 136
- Ride
- 2008 Triumph Rocket 3, 1997 Honda Valkyrie, Kawasaki Vulcan 1600 classic
...I have owned and rode a 2008 Triumph Rocket since 2012. I have put around 20,000 hard miles on the bike and absolutely love it. Hitting the throttle is like a crack high (I am guessing because I have never taken crack).
I also own a 1997 Honda Valkyrie, and a 2006 Kawasaki Vulcan. I have put around 10,000 miles on the Valk. I ride it alot tamer, as it is the bike my wife likes to ride on with. I have put about 10,000 on the Vulcan as well, mostly solo.
I bought all the bikes within a couple a months in 2012. I had just been awarded a 100% permanent and total disability from the Marine Corps...OORAH and more importantly SEMPER FI to all Marines of any age anywhere.
I have Gulf War Illness, Pancreatic Cancer, Myasthenia Gravis, Non-Alcoholic Steateohepatis from heavy exposure to Trichloroethylene as a F-4 Phantom Jet Mechanic, tumors in spleen, liver, and lungs, so I figured I better post soon, or possibly not at all...
Abdominal pain has kept me off the bikes for about the last 8 months, but I am having metal electrodes implanted in my spine pretty soon to try to help control the pain. It will probably be next spring before I can stay on a bike for any length of time.
I have often joked that I would prefer to die on a bike. Believe me it is much preferable to dying in a bed. Like a true Scot...better to die in battle than in bed. I know Valhalla awaits.
I am not fishing for empathy, as all true Warriors eventually reach Valhalla. It just takes some more lifetimes than others. For me it took a few.
I wanted to show off my new website...nothing is for sale...just a work of art...at least to me. I have actively raised American Bulldogs for the last twenty years, and it is hard to tell where my family ends and the dogs start at this point. www.brownscreekbulldogs.com
I have read the board for about a year now, and find the members very interesting. I figure we all share some common blood somewhere back, as many of the responses were my own thoughts.
Sincerely & Semper Fi,
David Scott Douthit
I also own a 1997 Honda Valkyrie, and a 2006 Kawasaki Vulcan. I have put around 10,000 miles on the Valk. I ride it alot tamer, as it is the bike my wife likes to ride on with. I have put about 10,000 on the Vulcan as well, mostly solo.
I bought all the bikes within a couple a months in 2012. I had just been awarded a 100% permanent and total disability from the Marine Corps...OORAH and more importantly SEMPER FI to all Marines of any age anywhere.
I have Gulf War Illness, Pancreatic Cancer, Myasthenia Gravis, Non-Alcoholic Steateohepatis from heavy exposure to Trichloroethylene as a F-4 Phantom Jet Mechanic, tumors in spleen, liver, and lungs, so I figured I better post soon, or possibly not at all...
Abdominal pain has kept me off the bikes for about the last 8 months, but I am having metal electrodes implanted in my spine pretty soon to try to help control the pain. It will probably be next spring before I can stay on a bike for any length of time.
I have often joked that I would prefer to die on a bike. Believe me it is much preferable to dying in a bed. Like a true Scot...better to die in battle than in bed. I know Valhalla awaits.
I am not fishing for empathy, as all true Warriors eventually reach Valhalla. It just takes some more lifetimes than others. For me it took a few.
I have read the board for about a year now, and find the members very interesting. I figure we all share some common blood somewhere back, as many of the responses were my own thoughts.
Sincerely & Semper Fi,
David Scott Douthit